12 February 1811

Petition of Thomas Parker and others, asking for a grant to help them make a road "from the Meeting House, near Mr. John Ellis’ on the River Chebbanaccadie [ Shubenacadie ], both ways, to the Road Leading from Halifax to Truro." Signed with 12 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 13

12 February 1811

Petition, to the Lieutenant Governor, of Theophilus Chamberlain and other inhabitants of Dartmouth and Preston, stating the bad state of the road between Creighton’s Ferry and Preston, and asking for a grant of £120, which they estimate will repair the road. Signed with 13 names. the other to the Assembly.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 14

13 February 1811

Petition, to the Assembly, of Theophilus Chamberlain and other inhabitants of Dartmouth and Preston, stating the bad state of the road between Creighton’s Ferry and Preston, and asking for a grant of £120, which they estimate will repair the road. Signed with 13 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 15

14 February 1811

Estimate of the Lt.-Governor for roads and bridges for the province. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 16

14 February 1811

Memorial of John Martin and other debtors in the Halifax jail. "That your Memorialists Labour under the great disadvantages from…being neither able to provide for themselves (while confined) in Jail nor for their Familys without – And…people have been put in Jail who either had no friends in Town or whose place of Residence were in some distant part of the Country; destitute of Money to Subsist themselves and unprovided with Bed Cloathing, such People have been dependant upon their fellow Prisoners for a Share of the Provisions their friends have with difficulty been able to send them – and their Bed Cloaths to the risk of their Health." Asking relief. Signed with 6 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 17

14 February 1811

Petition of William Sabatier and other merchants of Halifax, asking that a special agent be appointed by the province to look after the commercial concerns of Nova Scotia. Signed with 6 names. (Compare with similar petitions of 1808, 1809.)

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 18

14 February 1811

Petition of William Sabatier and other merchants stating that they employed Nathaniel Atcheson as a special agent to promote the commercial concerns of the province, and asking for a remuneration for him. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 19

16 February 1811

Draft address of the House of Assembly in answer to His Excellency's speech at the opening of the present assembly, mentioning the state of the British Empire and mentioning public accounts.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 20

16 February 1811

Draft motions that, due to the decayed state of the present building, a committee be appointed to find a more convenient place be found for the Council and Assembly to use.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 21

16 February 1811

Petition of William Logan and three others, asking for the bounty on wheat which they grew on new land. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 22

16 February 1811

Petition from Marble Wood, stating that he has entertained various contingents of the militia at his inn on the Windsor-Halifax road, and that he has received no payment for it. He encloses four certificates, showing when the soldiers were billeted on him. Encloses four certificates.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 23

18 February 1811

Petition of Benjamin Dodge and others of the Township of Granville, stating that they have formed a settlement on the Bay of Fundy in the township, and asking that a small grant be made to enable them to clear a road across the mountain to connect with the main road leading through Granville. 38 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 24

18 February 1811

Memorial of Michael Wallace, Provincial Treasurer, stating his services in that office for the previous thirteen years, that his salary has remained at £400 per annum "without any Fees or Emolument whatever appertaining thereto or ever received by him; and without any allowance for a clerk, office rent, fuel or stationary." "That for some Years after Memorialist was appointed, the duty was not so considerable, as to prevent him from occasionally attending to such Commission business as his Commercial friends and correspondents put in his way to increase his income, without which he could not have lived upon his Sallary with any degree of decency or Comfort. That of late years, the Revenues and expenditures of the Province, have so much increased the business of the Treasurer’s Office, that your Memorialists’ whole time and constant daily attendance is required to discharge the duties thereof"… This and the increased expense of everything prompts him to suggest an increase of salary.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 25

18 February 1811

Draft of Mr. Archibald’s motion that Council be asked for co-operation with regard to a place for the General Assembly to sit.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 26

February 1811

Petition of Nathaniel Brown, asking for compensation for exploring for a road between Dorchester, Sydney County, and Merigomish.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 27